Steve Mcpherson

Since 2007 Steve McPhersons primary source materials have been the discarded plastic objects that wash ashore on his local Kent coast of the UK. While it is impossible to ignore the environmental concerns present in his work, he draws analogies with his practice akin to the role of archaeologist/collector/and paradoxical treasure hunter. It is the alchemical processing of these remnants that he explores within a multidisciplinary practice. Via experimental tests of recycling and re-purposing, he seeks to plunder personal and collective narratives and bring them back to the surface of memory for new consideration.

Steve McPherson is an internationally exhibited artist whose practice includes, assemblage, collections, sculptural objects, installation, book works, photography, and sound. These are undertaken in aesthetics born from utility, science, collections, the laboratory and museum. Reflecting his interest in the way that the mundane can move through a transformative state into meaning.

".... Not only do the works highlight the problem of the amount of debris in the sea…. the mysterious, the unusual, the forgotten and lost. But these wreckage pieces these objects symbolise the history of the world up to this point, they a...

2006: Certificate of Education (post compulsory). Canterbury Christchurch University
1998: MA, Sculpture. Winchester School of Art, Hampshire.
1997: BA (Hon’s), Fine Art Sculpture. Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, Kent.

2019: in the future. Pie Factory, Margate, UK
2019: Environmental Impact, Hofstra University, Museum of Art, USA
2019: CALM & Loyel Carner Album Launch Exhibition and Auction, London, UK
2019: Art and Science, St Pauls School, London, UK
2019: ‘Plastic Entanglements’, Palmer Museum of Morden, Art USA
2019: AAF, Brussels, Belgium
2019: London Art Fair, London, UK
2019: The other Art fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2018: ‘The Blues’, BoEcho Gallery, London, UK
2018: The other Art fair, Victoria House, London, UK
2018: Plastic Entanglements’, Palmer Museum of Morden, Art USA
2018: The Naked House, Lush North America, New Orleans, USA
2018: 'Noir Sur Blanc’, BoEcho Gallery, London, UK
2017: Plastic Paradise, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017: The Naked House, Lush Creative Review, London, UK 2017: The other Art fair, Victoria House, London, UK
2016: ‘An undesirable archive’ Pie Factory, Margate, UK
2016: ‘International Marine Environment Art Project’, National Museum of Marine
Science & Technology, Taiwan
2016: 'Gyre- The Plastic Ocean' Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, San José State University, USA
2015: ‘In-significance’ (Solo), Gallery 7, Margate, UK
2015: ‘Form Follows Information’ ...